Transparency: A former classmate has added a tantalizing question to the mysteries surrounding Barack Obama's college years. Perhaps the GOP nominee, whose tax records are demanded, should call the president's bluff.

Not many students whose grades supposedly were good enough to get into Harvard Law School can say that 400 of their classmates taken randomly don't remember a single thing about him or his even being there. But Barack Obama, Columbia University class of '83, can. Student Obama spent two years at Columbia after transferring there from Occidental College in Los Angeles. And for all the impression he made on his classmates, he might as well have been in the witness protection program.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News called that random group of 400 Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama. Like most transfer students, Obama lived off-campus, a factoid defenders use to explain his apparent lack of human contact during his Columbia years. Obama himself does not speak much about his years at Columbia and Harvard Law, other than he attended both and was elected president of the Harvard Law Review.

Interestingly, Obama contributed not one signed word to the Harvard Law Review or any other legal publication. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at anytime." A curious factoid for an alleged scholar.

Thank goodness! Another sane voice. I assume that, like me, you've seen his Columbia and Harvard transcripts. I lost my copy, but please show the rubes what you've found so we can put this to bed at last.

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posted on 09/17/2012 4:33:44 PM PDT
by Sirius Lee
(Global fascism - power for Soros, islam for control, slavery for the rest of us.)

Tex, your first post on this thread was NOT about the picture, it was about birthers and misinformation.

It absolutely was. There have been numerous posts about this fake ID...and some people may not have been around when it was determined fake. Posting it serves no useful purpose, but it does contribute to the misinformation that is rampant in birtherism.

I have yet to comment on Obama's college years on this thread because it's a legitimate inquiry as is much of his shady past. But I don't confuse birtherism with vetting.

If you were to take the time and view the original article, you would see that the authors have provided the real image of the Obama or actually Sotero Columbia student ID.

I'm doing what you suggested, but i'm not getting the same results you claim.

If it were a forgery, it would not have been part of a serious investigative report.

Says who? I have seen dozens of "serious" reports that were based on crap. I see no where in the article where anyone alleges that the image of a foreign student card is anything but a piece of crap floating around on the internet which someone photoshopped.

It is not helpful for people to spread false information as anything other than a joke.

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